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FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ARIZONA

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
$32,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support At Home in the Desert: Youth Engagement and Place, a series of multidisciplinary arts performances and related activities at the ASU Art Museum's Desert One Festival. The Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, ASU faculty, artists, and Phoenix area underserved youth will engage in performances and participate in workshops and discussions.

Borderlands Theater Teatro Fronterizo, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production of Agnes Under the Big Top, a new work by Aditi Brennan Kapil. The work explores the intersecting lives of recent immigrants to this country and will be presented at the Zuzi Theater and other community venues for audiences drawn from throughout Tucson.

Cochise County Community College District (aka Cochise College)
Douglas, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration. Among the proposed authors for the annual, two-day literary conference and reading series are Beth Alvarado, Denise Chavez, Cynthia Hogue, and Marge Pellegrino.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students from Navajo and Hopi reservations will study one-on-one with a composer-in-residence for three weeks and create original work that will be performed by the New York City-based ETHEL String Quartet.

Tucson Sino Choir
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Arizona Chinese New Year Festival. Guest artists will include pipa soloist Xian Zhao, guzheng soloist Yadi Jin, and dizi soloist Wang Hongliang.

Tucson Symphony Society
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Young Composers Project. Students will learn to compose original works for orchestra. Their training will culminate in a reading and recording of their pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

West Valley Fine Arts Council
Surprise, AZ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Gallery 37 - Arizona Centennial Project featuring the creation of a mural for installation in Estrella Mountain Regional Park. Gallery 37, the council's signature youth arts employment program, engages students ages 15 to 18 with professional artists to design, create, and install permanent pieces of public art in the West Valley.

Wickenburg Foundation for the Performing Arts (aka Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts)
Wickenburg, AZ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Flying E Ranch Residency Program. Artists groups and artists including Joe Goode Performance Group; theater artists Elise Thoron, Basil Twist, and Houses of the Moon; and Parsons Dance Company will participate in open rehearsals, Q&A sessions, and performances at the Del E. Webb Center for the Performing Arts.


Number of Grants: 8          Total Amount: $125,000

 
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